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Meanings of fork-like in English

Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches.

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      1
      Flash succeeds flash; the lightning in forked streaks darting through the air.
      The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
      2
      The forked tongue, lightning-like, ran in and out upon the copper skin.
      At the Earth's Core
      3
      A little further and the road forked-themain one followed the shore.
      Deadham Hard: A Romance
      4
      He had hunted in the mountains while forked lightning flashed around him.
      Sergeant York And His People
      5
      The road forked, and the guards guided the elves to the left.
      The Dargonesti (Elves of the Sea)
      1
      But things did change as Norah Jones branched out into the new.
      Radio NZ
      2
      From this branched three roads leading to the villages in the plain.
      The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn / Including a ...
      3
      And so they've branched into building self-driving cars and a life-sciences company.
      Wired
      4
      The seven-branched candlesticks in black-wood, silver mounted, are by the same architect.
      Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury / A Descrip...
      5
      And here the conversation branched off on the all-absorbing topic of dress.
      The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
      1
      Of course there would be more patrols, given that night's two-pronged attack.
      Ahsoka
      2
      In fact, All Day would make a great twin-pronged Christmas party soundtrack.
      The Guardian
      3
      The three-pronged sceptre or trident of Poseidon reappears constantly in ancient history.
      Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
      4
      The two-pronged message of economic rebalancing and nationalism is a potent one.
      The Irish Times
      5
      Then he made a three-pronged fork and gave it to the prince.
      Twenty-Two Goblins
      1
      The leaves continually bifurcate, so that a full-grown one terminates in from twenty to thirty
      Insectivorous Plants
      2
      The marginal spine next above the pedunculated operculum, bifurcate.
      Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
      3
      On Tuesday the federal government postponed a decision to bifurcate the southern state following protests by political parties.
      Reuters
      4
      Every few centimeters the crawling lines would bifurcate; a few centimeters more they would divide again to build hexagons.
      The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
      5
      We will examine the spectra of asymmetric solutions near the point at which they bifurcate off of a symmetric branch.
      Pubmed
      1
      Drawing of Marrella from Gould, 1989c, to show homonomy of nearly identical biramous appendages on all postoral segments.
      The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
      2
      These biramous appendages were multifunctional, with one branch used for feeding and walking, and the other branch for breathing.
      Wired
      Usage of fork-like in English
      1
      The first that the polecat knew of him was that red-hot fork-like feeling that means fangs in the back of your neck.
      The Way of the Wild
      2
      The devil and his fire, his long forked-like iron bar scared the living daylights out of thousands of small children.
      The Irish Times